Palliative Care: A model of whole person care
Send us a text SummaryDr. Ann Berger, a pioneer in the field of palliative care, discusses the importance of whole person care and the misconceptions surrounding palliative care. Palliative care…
Veterans and Cancer Pocket Guide
About 6% of the current U.S. population is made up of military veterans. Americans aged 75+ include the most veterans – more than 4 in 10 men and 1 in…
New Guidelines for Integrative Care of Cancer-Related Anxiety and Depression
How You Can Use the ASCO-SIO Review and Guidelines Recently, I wrote about using the American Society for Clinical Oncology and Society for Integrative Oncology’s (ASCO-SIO) joint guidelines on integrative…
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The Tipping Point for Healing
I’ve often wondered what will be the first signs that our health care system in the U.S. is shifting toward whole person, preventative care. The first hint I got that…
New Guidelines for Integrative Cancer Pain Treatment from ASCO and the Society for Integrative Oncology
When patients with cancer pain ask you about pain management options, what do you say? It might depend on where you practice. Most people with cancer are treated in community…
Dr. Richard T. Lee: New Pain Guidelines for Cancer from SIO/ASCO
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Richard T. Lee, who was an instrumental member of the committee to analyze and review the health literature related to integrative approaches…
Trauma and Recovery
Without trauma there is no healing, no resilience, no health and no wellbeing. Trauma and recovery are dance partners with very different steps but are nonetheless inseparable. Much of the…
A Bigger Medical Bag for the Whole Person
Jan comes back to her childhood home year after year. She walks by the water in the canals, by the lakes and the ocean. She comes back to see her…